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I think that the right to strike is unquestionably a democratic right as argued in the Guardian here – surely anything else is just indentured labour? Apparently the way to tame the unions is to destroy their immunity from being sued for any harm striking might cause – or as the same article puts it:... Read more

[The] method to the madness is the fact that we do need austerity to enforce a certain organisation of society which is a classist organisation based on wage labor and …

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A couple of days ago Wes Streeting, Labour’s shadow health secretary, attacked GPs, saying their finances are murky, in the process obviously seeking to blame
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by Alan Hutchison Published on Matches in the dark 18th October 2018 · Updated 20th November 2020 Understand spending chains and you understand a fair chunk of Modern Monetary Theory. …

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by Alan Hutchison · Published on his Matches in the dark website on 27th September 2018 · Updated 20th November 2020 The continuing debate about the NHS — whether it’s …

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Left-wing president shows what can happen with political will to do what’s right for ordinary people New Brazilian president Lula da Silva is reversing the cuts to Brazil’s health programme imposed by right-wing former president Jair Bolsonaro. Da Silva, who won the presidential election at the end of October despite extensive right-wing attempts to rig […]

Those of us who fought hard against the Health and Social Care Act of 2012 (and I did, most especially on Twitter) always knew the
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Vice-president of Royal College of Emergency Medicine Ian Higgingson doesn’t expect to be trampled in the rush of politicians coming to experience appalling situation they’ve created Ian Higginson, Vice-President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, has challenged politicians to come and experience for themselves the horrors faced by NHS staff and patients, in an […]